Work/care policies in European welfare states: Continuing variety or change towards a common model?

Agnes Blome

Discussion Papers, Research Professorship Demographic Development, Social Change, and Social Capital from WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Abstract: This paper investigates work/care policies in fifteen European welfare states during the last two decades in a comparative perspective. The main question is how certain work/care arrangements are supported through public policies of different welfare states and whether this has changed over time. In particular the development of leave regulations and working time policies, the provision of childcare, child allowances and types of taxation schemes which favor the reconciliation of work and care are analyzed based on a comprehensive data collection. Although an ongoing trend towards the support of the dual-earner model is clearly visible in the data, countries still differ in the current extent of work/care reconciliation policies and the pace and timing of political reforms. Moreover, hardly any country fits an ideal type of an entirely coherent policy. Different countries prioritize certain instruments over others, irrespective of the notion they have of any specific work/care arrangement.

Keywords: work; care; reconciliation; policies; gender; Europe; comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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